IT Risk Services

Cybersecurity attacks threaten your business. As cloud computing, mobile devices, and big data become increasingly present in and vital to your organization, the threats grow. In this day and age, all companies – regardless of size or industry – need to think seriously about cybersecurity and what they are doing to protect themselves and their customers.

For most organizations, information is the most important asset. Many companies, large and small, are adopting the mindset that it’s not if, but when, a cybersecurity attack and data breach will occur. With these threats in mind, prevention is critical. So is having detection, response, and recovery processes in place before your organization’s or your clients’ information is compromised, so you can get back to business following a breach.

As a partner to hundreds of small and mid-sized organizations, Peterson Sullivan has developed a wide range of cost-effective services to help business leaders combat ever-expanding threats and successfully guard their corporate assets. Our Cybersecurity and IT Assurance team can help you assess and mitigate your risks and develop and manage an effective security plan.

Cybersecurity Risk Assessment

Our holistic assessments help you map your current state, define your security goals, and identify and manage your risks. Our role as cybersecurity consultants isn’t just to check boxes on a one-time list. Instead, our experts provide you with the tools for continuous improvement, so you can protect your organization today and in the future.

Using a proven methodology, our team helps you identify technical, organizational, and administrative control deficiencies and strengthen your security processes. Depending on your needs, we may review your:

Network security – Where are the physical and technical risks in your network, and how can you mitigate them?

Operational security – Do you have clear, documented policies and procedures around the use of your technology and data?

Privacy and data protection – Where is your most sensitive data and how can you best allocate resources to safeguard it?

Employee education – Do you have regular cybersecurity awareness training and accurate metrics to measure its success?

Incident response – Do you have an adequate internal and external cybersecurity plan if an attack occurs?

Our experts look at your business, compliance, and regulatory requirements, then leverage NIST, COBIT, and other established frameworks to determine your vulnerabilities. As part of the assessment, we prioritize your risks and provide your management and operations teams with a step-by-step roadmap for mitigating them and achieving your cybersecurity goals.

Cybersecurity Program Development and Management

Customers, boards, vendors, and other stakeholders want to know that the organizations they work with are protecting sensitive information. A weak security infrastructure can have legal and regulatory repercussions, and damage your reputation and your bottom line. Our team can help you define, implement, and manage an effective cybersecurity program, customized to your needs.

Cybersecurity goals – Our experts help you define and prioritize your organizational and program-level security goals, and create a detailed game plan for remediating deficiencies.

Risk management framework – We work with you to create a cybersecurity risk assessment methodology, define management/stakeholder roles, and develop security policies, procedures and supporting documentation, as well as technical controls and internal testing procedures.

Implementation– Our experienced team will help you implement your security program efficiently and cost-effectively, with minimal disruption to your day-to-day business.

Project/program management – We can provide ongoing support for your day-to-day needs and help you monitor and continually improve your cybersecurity program.

Cybersecurity Policy and Documentation

A strong security policy is the basis of an effective cybersecurity program. Peterson Sullivan uses a comprehensive methodology to deliver customized documentation solutions that support your environment.

Our cybersecurity consultants examine your business and compliance requirements to identify the policies and frameworks that are needed. They match this against your current policies, then provide a gap report and detailed remediation recommendations. We work with you to augment your existing policies or develop new documentation, and we help you create practical standards for policy maintenance, review and dissemination.

IT Quality Review Services

The quality of an IT operating and controls environment is key to a healthy organization. An IT Quality Review engagement provides a higher-level view encompassing basic cybersecurity controls in addition to an operations review. Through discussion, observation, and inspection, we help you gauge current state in the following categories, and help identify risk factors and quick wins.

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